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Read Passage A and assume that Passage A contains at least one argument. Passage A: Contaminated food causes 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths each year in the United States. In his new book, "Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety," Distinguished University Professor Timothy Lytton examines the history and complex workings of the country's food safety system. "I'm struck by the fact that in the U.S., there's a pitched battle between people who believe that the government should pass aggressive regulations to protect the public and people who think that the government should not interfere much in the way that businesses operate," said Lytton. "If you really want to understand how regulation works in the U.S., it's a mistake to get caught in this debate about big government versus big businesses. Regulation is more complicated than that.” There are an estimated 48 million cases of foodborne illness every year, yet very few people who get food poisoning go to a doctor. Even if they do go to a doctor, most physicians don't take a stool sample or send it to a state laboratory to get tested, and even if a physician orders testing, the state lab doesn't always report it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of the 48 million acute illness episodes every year, the CDC only detects 14,000 that are tied to a particular pathogen. And of those, the government only figures out what food was responsible in about 300 cases. For all of these reasons, Dr. Lytton thinks consolidating food safety regulation into a single federal agency might not be a good idea. - Marquez, Jennifer. "A Recipe for Safer Food"GSU News Hub. October 2019. Which of the following is a conclusion of Dr. Lytton's argument(s)? "Regulation is ... complicated." "[i]t's a mistake to get caught in this debate about big government versus big businesses" "[T]he government only figures out what food was responsible in about 300 cases." "[C]onsolidating food safety regulation into a single federal agency might not be a good idea." None of the above.